The City Wall of Imperial Rome : An Account of Its Architectural Development from Aurelian to Narses.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (308 pages)
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures in the Text -- Glossary -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Aim of This Book and Previous Studies -- Part I. General Features and Ancient Descriptions -- I. The Wall in Its Present State -- 1. The Relation of the Wall to Earlier Boundaries and Defences of the City and Its Present Character -- 2. The Date of the Wall as Shown by Incorporated Structures -- (a) The Land Wall -- (b) The Transtiberine Wall -- (c) The River Wall -- (d) Hadrian's Mausoleum -- (e) Conclusions -- II. Ancient Literary Sources, Including Two Renaissance Studies -- 1. Classical Literature -- (a) The Building of the Wall -- (b) Maxentius and the Wall -- (c) The Honorian Restoration -- (d) An Edict of Theodosius II and Valentinian III -- (e) Theoderic's Repairs -- (f) Belisarius Prepares for the Seige of Witigis -- (g) The Destruction of the Wall by Totila, and Further Repairs by Belisarius -- 2. Medieval Descriptions of the Wall -- (a) The Einsiedeln List -- (b) Chronicon Benedicti -- (c) The Cemetery Lists -- (d) Descriptio Plenaria -- (e) Graphia Aureae Urbis Romae -- (f) De Mirabilibus Urbis Romae -- (g) Anonymus Magliabecchianus -- 3. Two Renaissance Studies -- (a) Poggio Bracciolini -- (b) Nicholas Audebert -- Part II. The Architectural Evolution of the Wall -- I. The Construction of the Wall -- 1. The First-period Wall, Type A -- 2. The First-period Wall, Type B -- 3. The First-period Wall, Type C -- 4. The Scope and Value of the First-period Wall -- 5. The Second-period Wall, Type A -- 6. The Second-period Wall, Type B -- 7. The Second-period Wall, Type C -- 8. The Second-period Wall, Type D -- 9. The Value of the Reconstructed Wall -- II. The Towers and Their Evolution -- 1. The First-period Towers -- 2. The Second-period Towers. III. Necessaria -- IV. Repairs to the Wall and Towers -- Part III. The Gates -- I. Introductory -- II. Existing Gates -- 1. Porta Nomentana -- 2. Porta Latina -- 3. Porta Ostiensis East -- 4. Porta Appia -- (a) Early Constructions and the East Tower -- (b) The West Tower -- (c) The Curtain -- (d) The Vantage-court -- (e) Conclusions -- 5. Porta Metrobia -- 6. Porta Asinaria -- (a) The First Gate -- (b) The Second Gate -- 7. Porta Pinciana -- 8. Porta Tiburtina -- 9. La Porta Chiusa -- III. Demolished Gates -- 1. Porta Salaria -- 2. Porta Flaminia -- 3. Porta Portuensis -- 4. Porta Praenestina-Labicana -- 5. Porta Ardeatina (? Laurentina) -- 6. Porta Ostiensis West -- 7. Porta Aurelia-Pancraziana -- 8. Porta Septimiana -- 9. Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri -- IV. Existing Posterns -- 1. Postern of Via Nomentana -- 2. Postern of Castra Praetoria -- 3. Postern of the Licinian Gardens -- 4. Postern of Vigna Casali -- 5. Wicket of Giardino Cardelli -- 6. Doorway of Vigna Casali -- V. Demolished Posterns -- Part IV. Historical Interpretation of the Remains -- I. Aurelian's Wall and Gates -- II. From Aurelian to Honorius -- III. The Restoration of Honorius -- IV. From Honorius to Narses -- 1. Period IV -- 2. Period V, Theoderic's Restoration -- 3. Period VI, Belisarius in 536 -- 4. Period VII, 537 to 546 -- 5. Period VIII, Belisarius in 547 -- Appendix I. Text of the Einsiedeln List -- Appendix II. Index to Towers and Curtains of the Wall -- Index of Ancient Literature, Artists, and Modern Authorities -- General Index.